Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
Stand by for some horror stories from the likes of Dook and Background Noise.
Can anyone hear that noise? Kind of squeaky. Like a swinging lantern...
.. and smelling of wee??
We did operate most of the time in our supposed 'war fit' of CL recce pod, tanks and outboard ECM and Phimat - which IIRC were also non-jettisonable. I do recall often extrapolating the takeoff speeds off the side of the graph, but I don't recall any 'dispensation' - it was just what we did.
The banter from the Tornado Sqns was obviously merciless - right up until GW1 when they started carrying JP233!